Environmental Economics and Policy Studies - Call for Papers on "Green Finance, responsible investments, and ethics in the era of post-COVID-19 and Russian-Ukrainian conflict"
Overview
The recent COVID-19 outbreak again has challenged policymakers and practitioners with sharp currency depreciations and large capital outflows. The current Russian-Ukrainian conflict has aggravated the situation. In addition to the Covid-19 crisis, which introduced the implementation of unconventional financial and monetary policy, the euro area crisis and related difficulties in the sovereign debt crisis raised economic uncertainty. Recently, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict has dramatically impacted the macro-financial environment, leading to elevated exchange rate volatility and innovations in monetary policy in response.
Several alternative investments could be useful as a response to the current crisis, helping investors be better prepared for the next pandemic or energy crisis. For instance, investment in the digital sector could overcome the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and relaunch the economy. In addition, green bonds, clean energy, and innovations will likely benefit from the current fossil fuel energy crisis as private and public sectors increase their investments in the sustainable energy industry. The evolution of technical Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning tools, econometric methodologies will allow modelling correctly complexities and nonlinearity.
We invite authors to submit papers covering these topical issues related to the recent challenges affecting investors, regulators, and the financial system. Authors will be expected to publish in Environmental Economics and Policy studies subject to the editorial review process.
Topics
We cordially invite academics, practitioners, and policymakers who address these issues to submit papers discussing the following topics and answering the following questions:
- Impacts of the energy crisis on various types of clean energy investments and their implications for investors.
- Performances of clean energy investments before and after the current energy crisis and their asset allocation consequences.
- Predicting clean energy stock prices with machine learning to explore the impact of Volatility and uncertainty in the era of post-covid-19 and Russian Ukrainian Conflict
- Are clean energy investors paying attention to climate risks?
- Will the European green deal enhance Europe's security towards Russia? theoretic and/or empirical investigation
- Government intervention and green innovation in Renewable energy towards energy transition and carbon neutrality.
- Green finance and the labor market
- Financing sources, green investment, and environmental performance
- How COVID-19 and the current conflict has affected the performance of green investment funds
- Green Finance and Environmental Protection
- Green Public Procurement and Corporate Environment Policy
- Environmental performance and firm financial performance
- Sustainable development goals achievement from a financial perspective in the era of the current crisis
Submission
Papers must be submitted to the journal's submission system (this opens in a new tab). Please select “Yes” for the question “Does this manuscript belong to a special feature?” and then select the special feature “S.I. : Green Finance, responsible investments, and ethics in the era of post-COVID-19 and Russian-Ukrainian conflict”.
Timetable
Submission deadline: December 31, 2023 March 31, 2024
Reviewing process: Until March 2024
Publication: June 2024
Guest Editors
Younes Ben Zaied, Ph.D.
Full Prof. Of Finance and Econometrics
EDC Paris Business School, Paris, France
ybenzaied@edcparis.edu
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Nidhaledine Ben Cheikh
ESSCA Paris School of Management, France
nbcheikh@gmail.com